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Joleen Laue has worked at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories for 10 years in their marketing division, serving as a campaign manager and content strategist. In that role, she helped create their tone and voice guidelines, shaped their corporate identity, and led numerous product launches and brand awareness campaigns. Additionally, she developed various forms of educational content and feature stories highlighting different customer experiences in the electric power system.

Growing up in the Tacoma-Puyallup area, Sueann Ramella remembers being a precocious young reporter for her school paper. A big fan of shows like 60 Minutes and 20-20, she dreamed of one day being a hard-hitting journalist, uncovering scandals and exposing the hidden truth. She attended Washington State University, studying journalism. It was there that she discovered her love of radio. Sueann began working for Northwest Public Radio in 1997 after her sophomore year, and has been with us ever since.

Debbie Riek has spent her entire career in Education. Influenced heavily by the work of Fred Rogers and Howard Gardner, Debbie has focused on helping children connect to and understand the world around them. Debbie has degrees in Communication and Elementary Education and a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Curriculum. She has taught first grade, directed a preschool, taught pre-service teachers, and provided professional development. For the last 12 years, she has worked in education and Public Media at WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is passionate about equity in education, social and emotional learning and family engagement. Debbie lives in York Pennsylvania with her husband, Bruce, an ESL teacher, and her three daughters– Olivia, a college junior, Maddie, a high school senior, and Grace, a high school senior (yes, they are twins).

Radio has been an important part of Sarah’s life since she was a child and spent hours listening to various music stations from her small town in Idaho. She cannot recall a time when she was without a radio, even when she spent summers working on a lookout for the US Forest Service. In high school, she was part of a team that had a weekly news and music program on the local radio station.

Johanna Bejarano is a bilingual journalist and communications professional with more than 15 years of experience. She gained valuable experience in Colombia, her home country, working as a collaborator for Diario Occidente, a regional newspaper, reporting about social issues affecting communities in the Southwest regions of Cauca and Valle de Cauca.

Hailing from Bellevue WA, Anjuli Dodhia was immersed in classical music at a young age. She sang in her church youth choir, and in senior year of high school, she was the orchestra’s principal violinist.

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